Transatlantic relations plunged at the weekend as Berlin, Brussels and Paris all demanded that Washington account promptly and fully for new disclosures on the scale of the US National Security Agency's spying on its European allies, writes The Guardian’s Ian Traynor . Guy Verhofstadt, the former...

Thousands of people were in Zagreb's main square as Croatia officially became the European Union’s 28th member state, reports the BBC’s Guy De Launey . They enjoyed performances ranging from traditional dance to hip hop - culminating in a stirring rendition of the EU anthem Ode To Joy at midnight...

Fashion One, the international channel for fashion, entertainment and lifestyle television, will launch a dedicated feed in Belgium via Telenet on July 15, reports Broadband TV News’ Robert Briel . The international television network, targeting to fully localise the channel by the end of the year...

Two celebrated Belgian musicians will appear as guests in the Manila Symphony Orchestra’s latest production, The Trumpet Calls, at the Francisco Santiago Hall, reports the Inquirer . The concert will feature Belgian guest artists Manu Mallearts on trumpet, and Thanos Adamopoulos as guest conductor...

Kicking off last night (Thursday) and continuing tonight is the opening weekend of Recyclart summer holidays . Every year the urban arts centre, operating from the former Bruxelles-Chapelle train station, runs all sorts of evening activities on two nights during the summer season. Free or for a...

Health ministers at both federal and regional levels have come together to prepare a plan of action aimed at reducing alcohol consumption, the Sudpresse newspapers report today. Among the 28 measures in the so-called ‘Alcohol Plan 2014-2018’ is a ban on ‘happy hours’ in bars and the introduction of...

A Belgian gynaecologist who injected women with specially-prepared sperm cells so they could choose the sex of their babies has been fined €5,500, reports the Daily Mail . At least 165 women paid about €1,200 to be treated by Dr Frank Sterckx in his private clinic at Borgehout, near Antwerp -...

Thousands of young graduates toil on the Brussels treadmill without job security, benefits or sometimes even a salary under the noses of European Union leaders meeting this week to declare war on youth unemployment, reports Reuters’ Anders Melin . “When you’re just rolling from one unpaid...

Police in Nivelles, Walloon Brabant province, discovered a video tape showing scantily dressed children during a search conducted in Marc Dutroux's prison cell, reports Flanders News . The fragment appears out of the blue in the middle of a documentary on a VHS tape, according to several Belgian...

Belgian film Altiplano made for a heart-warming evening at Chandigarh’s European Film Festival, writes the Times Of India . Altiplano, directed by Peter Brosens and Jessica Woodworth, tells the tale of a war photographer, Grace, who is devastated by a violent incident in Iraq and renounces her...